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Originally Posted by Ancient Mariner
I purchased a named variety of Cattleya a few years ago and what I received had a tag calling it C. Skinneri. That's not much to describe it. I prefer to deal with AOS Marketplace sellers. Many others don't ship what you order, and you don't find out until they bloom.
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Cattleya skinneri is a species. (name should be lower case) The genus actually has been reclassified as Guarianthe (closely related to Cattleya, but differences that only a taxonomist could love) That actually tells quite a lot about it. Here's some information:
Cattleya skinneri and some species information
IOSPE PHOTOS A species occurs in nature - people will selectively breed for size, form, color, etc. But as long as the selections are within the species, it is still the species. Breed with other species (or hybrids), and you get a hybrid.
Sometimes there is information on the tag about a color variety (
e.g. Cattleya skinneri var. alba for a white one with no pink or red) or a cultivar in single quotes
e.g. Cattleya skinneri 'Heiti Jacobs' to refer to a specific plant or clone of it) But the absence of those qualifiers does not make it a NOID - the species name is very much an identifier.
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